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F. A. DESLOGE.

Clothes Mangle.

Patented June 8, 1869.

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FRANK A. DESLOGE, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

Leners Patent No. 91,095, dem .Tune s, 1869.

CLOTHES-MANGLE The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of the same.

`upon clothes or similar stuffs, these shall be smoothed and ironed,"as in the ordinary process of mangling.

To enable those herein skilled to make and use my said improvements, I will now more fully describe the same, referring to the accompanying Figure l asa frontelevation,

Figure 2 as a side elevation, and to Figure 3 as a'seetion of composite roller, used under circumstances hereinafter more fully explained.

In the ordinary uses of my said invention for ironing clothes, I support my said device upon any convenient table, A, by screwingr the frame ofthe mangle toA the plate B of said table.

My said mangle will consist principal-ly of two or more rollers, C, which will usually be made of metal, such as cast-iron, having a polished outer surface.

Said rollers will be rotated upon hollow shafts, D, by sleeve-journals, F.

Ihe journals F rest in proper bearings in a frame, G, supporting the said parts.

In order that the said rollers may permit the passage of clothes, one of the said journals F and its bearing-blocks will be arranged to slide up or down in the ii'ame G, a rubber or other spring, K, and set screw, H, regulating the pressure upon said journal, and thus also the, pressure upon the cloth being passed under said roller.

Said rollers will be rotated by hand or other power, the journals F being arranged with gear-wheels, L, herefor.

In order that said rollers shall act upon the clothes not only by pressure, to smoothen the same, but also by the heat usual in operations of this character, I arrange the said hollow shafts D in connection with reservoirs of heat, by means whereof heat may be transmitted within the rollers C.

In theusual arrangements which are practicable l1erefor,the shafts D will be arranged with pei-fora tions, E, and coal-gas, such as is used for purposes of illumination in cities, will be passed into said shafts I) Yso that it issues from the perforations E. The

streams of gas being ignited, will form-so many flames, heating the roller C equitably as it revolves.

As combustion could not take place within the said l rollers without an air-draught, I arrange the orifices c herefor.

In case illuminating-gas cannot be used, a spiritlamp dame may be applied, or any other accessible source of heat,

In many cases,where clothing having hemmed or ridged edges, buttons or other projections, is to be mangled, I propose to use a yielding roller, O', in cony nection with the roller O. Said yielding roller will be formed of a wrapping of felting, compressed cotton, or other fibre,'which will he tightly encased in a linen or other exterior wrapping, generally in the manner indicated iu lig. 3. The material of such composite roller will allow the projections on clothes to pass betweenthe rollers without undue strain, and the surface of the cloth, in such passage, in contact with the smoothing-roller C, will be properly mangled, and by reversing the stuff, to bring the reverse surface to contact with the roller C, the desired smoothness of both sur-` faces is achieved.

Having thus fully described any said invention,

l. The roller O, its orifices c, and sleeve-journals F, when combined with the shaft D'and its perforatious E, substantially as set forth. a y

2. Ihe smoothing-roller C, when combined with the composite roller C', substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In witness of said invention, I have hereto set my hand, in the presence of- FRANK A. DESLOGE.

Witnesses: Y

GEO. P. HERTHEL, Jr., WM. W. HERTHEL. 

